James Hemphill v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• reversing conviction of first-degree murder for failure to prove premeditation, and remanding to “permitf] sentencing for second-degree murder without a new trial”
• invalidating first-degree murder conviction where “[t]he attack was without warning or apparent reason”
• defendant brutally assaulted female acquaintance before murdering her sleeping 10-year-old grandson; evidence of premeditation and deliberation held insufficient
• no inference of premeditation where defendant may have obtained murder weapon at scene of crime
• no inference of premeditation where defendant may have obtained murder weapon at scene of crime
• time to walk up stairs consistent with finding that killing was product of deliberation, when motive was shown

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).